Trigg County CES Program Indicators and Success Stories - Jul 1, 2021

Trigg County CES Program Indicators and Success StoriesJul 1, 2021 - Jun 30, 2022

1073 - Tobacco
1073.4)	4	Number of producers who implemented on-farm trials for tobacco production
1073.3)	69	Number of producers who used Extension information to select varieties of tobacco with appropriate disease resistance
1073.1)	69	NNumber of producers who participated in Tobacco GAP training
1073.2)	0	Number of producers achieving iTobacco GAP certification

1073 - Tobacco

1073.4)

Number of producers who implemented on-farm trials for tobacco production

1073.3)

Number of producers who used Extension information to select varieties of tobacco with appropriate disease resistance

1073.1)

NNumber of producers who participated in Tobacco GAP training

1073.2)

Number of producers achieving iTobacco GAP certification

Success Stories

Trigg/Caldwell Tobacco Meeting

Author: Samuel Cofield

Major Program: Tobacco

Tobacco production remains a very important part of the Ag economy for many Trigg County producers making up 17% of the total Crop sales.  For producers, new diseases, increased regulations and as always the weather in 2021 made producing a high quality, high yielding crop very difficult.  Trigg and Caldwell Counties have worked together to put on an educational meeting each year to help them find answers to the issues they are facing in the field.  This year 68 producers attended